
"Can you believe this kids movie isn't 100 percent logical?"
Alex Meyers
is a content creator that primarily discusses movies and TV shows. He first joined YouTube in 2015 and first started his career by doing video essays. But a few years later changed his format to simply doing animated reviews on sitcoms and movies.
Alex Meyers contains examples of:
- Art Evolution: When Alex first started his animated reviews, his character was just a simple bald cartoon with no features. But after the first year, Alex's character was designed more anime influenced.
- *Bleep*-dammit!: Due to the nature of Youtube, Alex would censor any cursing or inappropriate language in the media he's discussing. He would use words like:
- "DEVIL'S TANGO!" Note
- "Firetruck." Note
- Squeaky Toy Sound Effect Note
- Covers Always Lie: His thumbnail for movies and tv shows I CAN'T talk about...
depicts Viacom, Disney and Netflix as one of the main reasons he can't talk on media that is copyrighted by them, but the video just only points to Viacom. - Early-Installment Weirdness: A lot of his early videos are different from his later content.
- Meyers used to more formal video essays and would show his face, unlike his later content where he uses animation and his comedic. His voice is also more quiet and deep compare to being high and pitched up.
- Meyers' first video using his animated avatar was in "Riverdale is a mess", but as stated in Art Evolution, his avatar was just a simple bald cartoon with no features (akin to Jaiden Animations). On top of that, there's no music, the animated parts are in a white background and they don't overlay with the show or film he's watching.
- Reviews on shows that already ended would just discuss only the first episode. Later reviews like Dog with a Blog and Bunk'd would have Meyers discuss what happens in the first and last episodes.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: His second video on Season 7 of Riverdale takes a live-action approach to his usual style, with Alex's cartoon avatar appearing as a plush doll and the characters from the show being represented as puppets. Curiously, only Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead have puppets; Cheryl remains a cartoon, and when Alice is brought up, she's portrayed by a Psyduck plushie of all things.
- Gag Censor: Alex would also use funny images to hide non-family friendly imagery in media, such as:
- A banana gun Note
- An old lady vacuuming Note
- Mister Seahorse: At one point in his review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire his cartoon avatar is shown reading a book called Harry Potter And The Pregnant Sonic.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Played for Laughs, as Alex regularly brings up his past fictional crushes, such as Sailor Jupiter, Roxanne, and Mimi Tachikawa.
- Running Gag:
- The "Big 'Ol Red Flag Parade
" Note - "But before that, really quick..." Note
- A cut to a black screen with Alex giggling in the audio.
- Abs: The Musical (and Archie's abs in general), courtesy of his Riverdale reviews.
- The "Big 'Ol Red Flag Parade
- Self-Deprecation: He's usually the butt of a lot of his own humor, ex: joking about being a loser in high school.
- The Teetotaler: He said Wonka reacting to Noodle never having tried chocolate is similar to how people react when they hear that he's never tried alcohol.
